[Interest] C++11 in Qt5

Michael Jackson imikejackson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 22:47:10 CEST 2012



On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:

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> http://woboq.com/blog/cpp11-in-qt5.html
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> Can someone part of the Qt project, explain the reasoning for this…
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> While in general I love the idea… In specific, I have had customers that are 5-10 years behind in their compiler choice..
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> Usually in the embedded world, where the processor doesn’t have a current version of gcc, but this does worry me that many people will be excluded from Qt 5.0
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> Scott

What versions of MSVC have C++11 by default?

I understand progress but I agree that this may lock out some compiler suites that are still widely used. Of Course I guess this forces the developers upgrade their IDEs/Compilers

Mike J.





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